It’s for the kafkaesque
Albert Camus
Margaret Atwood, from Paper Boat: Selected Poems; "He Shifts from East to West,"
Emily Dickinson ― The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Anne Carson, from “The Glass Essay”, Glass, Irony, and God
Claudia Rankine, “Some years there exists a wanting to escape…”, Citizen: An American Lyric
Sally Wen Mao, from "The Peony Pavilion"
“I understood the true fate of Orpheus, that love is a constant terror of loss.”
— Kazimierz Wierzyński, tr. by Czeslaw Milosz, “A Word of Orphists,” (via violentwavesofemotion)
— Virginia Woolf
Sandra Cisneros, from "Tea Dance, Provincetown, 1982", Woman Without Shame
Sandra Cisneros, from "Tea Dance, Provincetown, 1982", Woman Without Shame
Exercise. Avoid drama, embarrassments & toxic people. Look amazing. Get smarter. Embrace peace. Eat clean. Make a ton of money. Level up your circle. Stay pure. Be untouchable. Talk less. Be magnetic & intuitive. Pray more. Think highly of yourself. Be the most precious creature on earth, protected by God.
— Nora Lange, "Dog Star", pub. The Rupture (#120)
why do my unresolved emotions only catch up to me the day before an exam huh
- “you’re a liability”
Warsan Shire, from "For Women Who Are Difficult to Love"
Goncharov (1973)
for a fortnight there we were forever